Apple Watch first-year sales were a failure: 10 million units sold, while Apple had planned for 40 mil

Jony Ive, the famed Apple designer behind iconic products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad, is leaving the company and his departure seems to have opened a can of worms, stirring suspicion that Apple’s design team is left dispirited and the company is run by operations specialists rather than innovators.

And while time will give the best answer to those concerns, a fascinating report by the Wall Street Journal reveals a bunch of interesting details about the inside process at Apple.